Lulu vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Lulu
based on 2,262 Lulu vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lulu vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Lulu vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Lulu
Tips for Playing as Lulu against Varus
Glitterlance can be fired at odd angles depending on where your cursor is - Moving your cursor closer to Pix and Lulu will change your area of effect size considerably.
Consider casting Help, Pix! on ranged attackers for the Pix boost and Wild Growth on Tanks or Fighters for the added initiation power.
Advice to Win Against Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Lulu vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Lulu in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Lulu versus Varus matchup stats that can help us realize the differences between the two. For instance, Lulu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Lulu may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Varus. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Lulu normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Varus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Lulu and Varus
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Who is Better, Lulu or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lulu usually loses when facing off against Varus, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Lulu makes a bad counter for Varus.
While Lulu does have a lower winrate than Varus, when facing one another, Lulu also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Lulu into Varus.
Moreover, Lulu also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Lulu vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Lulu is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lulu against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Lulu in order to counter Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lulu most often gets a lot less CS relative to Varus. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Lulu versus Varus build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Mikael's Blessing, and Ardent Censer. When Lulu included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when fighting Varus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lulu boasted an average winrate of 48.8% when countering Varus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Varus as Lulu, Lulu players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Lulu vs Varus LoL games, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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